VOTE, VOTE, VOTE - THE UNAWARDS POST OF THE YEAR PUBLIC VOTE IS OPEN

It’s here. Your chance to vote for the comms2point0 ‘UnAwards Guest Post of the Year’. I believe it’s the best year yet. Contender, ready…

by Darren Caveney

comms2point0.co.uk is a beautiful, bulging, bounty of comms insights. It now offers more than 1.5k posts from over 500 comms pros, sharing insights and lessons, highlights and angst.

Each year the UnAwards shortlists the most reads posts of the year and you – the great British comms public – decide the winner.

The 7th annual UnAwards has been moved to summer 2021 – more here.

But the Post of the Year UnAward continues - in your face, Covid.

It’s the UnAwards – so of course there’s a public vote

I love the UnAwards. They are a passion. The most accessible industry awards around. And one aspect I love is that you get to choose some of the winners. So here’s your chance to do just that.

The top 10 most read posts of 2020 have been assembled and the winner will be decided by a public vote. Did you miss a gem?

Have a read and choose your favourite HERE

The public vote will close on MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER, AT MIDNIGHT

The winner will be announced live at a special online Zoom ceremony at 11am on the morning of Friday 11 December.

BE THERE – JOIN IN THE CEREMONY

Places are strictly limited so if you want to join the fun drop me an email sharpish and I’ll put you on the list.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to write a post and share their insights in 2020.

And well done to those shortlisted. I loved each one so choosing a winner will be tough.

The shortlist

Shame, resilience and mental health: My story

by Jude Tipper

Be more Shelby: 6 comms lessons from Peaky Blinders

by Alex Mills

When public support goes wrong

by Lisa Potter

Why comms is an essential service

by Amanda Nash

Jobless, possibly stateless and almost homeless: My life as a crisis comms case

by Kat Marshall

7 lessons shared – Behind the scenes comms insight from a nightingale hospital

by Jane Harris  

How your comms could stop the bully

by Jude Tipper

Forget you

by Teela Clayton

One story away

by Son Pham

From comms officer to deputy CEO -  One year on

by Laura Skaife

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THE #UNAWARDS19 SHORTLIST IS LIVE

The wait is over – the UnAwards19 shortlist has been published

by Darren Caveney

It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s been a massive task for the UnAwards judges this year.

342 entries is a pretty astonishing return.

Huge thanks for the time and effort which all entrants took this year.

If you have made it onto the shortlist you should be really proud, it’s a major achievement.

And if you didn’t make it onto the shortlist you’ll of course be sad. We’ve all been there. But that should not detract from you being proud of your work.

Many on the shortlist this year tried but didn’t make it in 2018. So please don’t give up – try again next year.

You can view the full UnAwards19 shortlist HERE.

BEING AT THE BIG DAY…

Each year the publication of the shortlist sparks a run on the remaining tickets.

I am going to limit ticket sales to two per organisation so that I can get as many shortlisted people to the big day as possible.

Ticket availability is limited and is first come, first served.

You can buy up to two tickets HERE.

SAYING THANKS

Finally a big, big thank you to the team of external judges - all 20 of them:

Dave Worsell, Matt Johnson, Ross Wigham, Phil Morcom, Carolyne Mitchell, David Grindley, Ian Curwen, Fran Collingham, Stuart Banbery, Rachael Richardson-Bullock, Matt Nicholls, Victoria Ford, John-Paul Danon, Phil Jewitt, Holly Bremner, Harriet Small, Madeline O’Phelan, Andy Carter and Ben Capper.

It’s been a huge amount of work for you all and I thank you so much for your time and efforts. I owe you all a beer.

I look forward to seeing many of you on 6 December.

Darren Caveney is organiser of the UnAwards, creator of comms2point0 and owner of creative communicators ltd